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As a lutenist he has performed throughout North America and Europe and as a guitarist has just released a CD, Come on in my Kitchen, with his blues band. His publications include Performance on Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela (Cambridge, 1997), The Manuscript Sources of 17th-Century Italian Lute Music, and Music and Science in the Age of Galileo.

victor anand coelho is Professor of Music at the University of Calgary. As musical training is increasingly broadened this comprehensive book will become an indispensable resource.

The coverage of the book allows the player to understand both the analogies and the differences between guitar traditions all styles – from baroque, classical, country, blues, and rock to ﬂamenco, African, and Celtic – will share the same platform, along with instrument making. This is the ﬁrst book to encompass the breadth and depth of guitar performance, featuring twelve essays covering different traditions, styles, and instruments, written by some of the most inﬂuential players, teachers, and guitar historians in the world. These histories simultaneously span popular and classical styles, contemporary and historical practices, written and unwritten traditions, and Western and non-Western cultures. The Cambridge Companion to the Guitar From its origins in the culture of late medieval Europe to enormous global popularity in the twentieth, the guitar and its development comprise multiple histories, each characterized by distinct styles, playing techniques, repertories, and socio-cultural roles.

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